Hotel Proforma founder Kirsten Dehlholm and composer Karmella Tsepkolenko spent time together in Copenhagen and developed the outline of Hotel Proforma’s next major touring production, Reflief Possible Relief. However Tsepkolenko did not continue with SEAS as a creator, and instead her organisation Association New Music become the Odessa host of SEAS in 2008.
Dehlholm collaborated with the Ukrainian DJ group Ukr.Tele.Kom from Odessa in the preparation of the 3 dimensional soundscape that accompanied the piece. Relief reflects on Ukraine from a European perspective using the work of Vladmir Nabokov, who had synaesthesia – a condition in which the person confuses sensory stimuli so that they “see sound” and “hear light”.